JEFFJERSONIAN REPUBLICAN.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
THE PUBLIC LANDS
Wp think there is an argument in tlm following
: uicle from the National Intelligencer that appeals
. o AimniW in thp. common sense as it does to tlie
i rlst --ftf riw.rv PcnnsvlvemtttV.
The people of the state can here see what they
have absolutely iost oy-iue unjusi poncy o
unntinnnl administration. Dauphin county, accord
ing to the census of 1830, has lost one hundred and
- nine thousand aaiiars, uuu w as no nijuam.v,
hoino- nnn ftf the counties of Pennsylvania. Berks
tmn hundred ihoasand dollars.
Philadelphia upwards; q four .hundred- thonsanWf
... 1 i - . . -. 1 ? ......... ,.t .V. l Wo Hrk I
dollars, ana oiner counties i (jwpuiuuii.''-
not say that the land trtll-oi iur; oiay wouw.iwu
thrown these immense sum3:frectly.;..mtQ:the
rmmtv treasuries:' but if .the- stato .had;received
! them,-the necessity . of. .taxaiiyn to that .amount
Iip'oji ' nvnided. so that- the. Idss,
if not direct, lias been indirect, and amounts to a
5?bw, in all soberness", We ask any manj'wo-care
not ofwhaXparty, if this.isri2ht;if iris jhst? These,
publtti'lattds aio agmuch tlie proporiy oi .uu; puir
plelof- Pennsylvania- as of any othr-statQ.in. the
Uni.oai-.she unlived bravo Jroopsjo defend them
in the revolutionary and late wars ; nd for the
purchase of 'thosa of theih that Were obtained
in
thaVwy, she fufhisli'KerYegiiTa? tpjota. Yet
the Tail' Ibllcn parly -fu"Cdngress now propose to
girWibay'ike oW puUic .domain iqiOjic.tiQuand
mflUonspf Acres-, to tlrcStatcs-in whchftoy to-What
.riWit,lift5 rwcrre-ss. thus to rob tba states without
tlieirconsetu 'Npne at at. all.. Every slate in, the-
Union-and especially "every .old statb hasa vest-,
cf nglit n the public domain, of wHIch'she cannot
berjepVived against Kc'r wi'I except by a palpable
outrage1 t)n jnftlitfe anil heri'igiits? and nn, the name
ofitlie'Tieople of-I)nnsylvaiua,wfec;.rpc5f against
thosage of-the J.k.to rgj
sqftapafir -iier prqperiy.. J. '"
'w, ii,,JuT-m.-h PrPsTtffint Van Burcn.
becatise he wishes it' to purchase the votes of
fnfctKeSr- constituents, .ther will iind the people a-
waWtotlM? question,, which is hot merely a propo-
the states which will receive tuepoonv out weaTeh Ihe shortest Ipossiblc time, nAvith the
warn the representatives from Pennsylvania m economy Now this creat end
Congress tpv Wra hhw they act tailns question.. potest possible economy, flow, this gi eat ena
;Mtfieihave the-Jiardihood tO: hetray .thp iuteresls seems-to be .totally disregarded. The Legislature
fmeresf ccumar YVWhas been done for the people ? What for
111 Westell recur to this subject again, and request iho alleviation of the State from the distress.wluch
ourTeaders to preserve thetfollov!ng remarks and is pressing so heavily upon her ! The banks yet
" table, as a useful matter of reference. ." continue to do business with closed -vaults, the
From trie Tfational intoTligncer. people yet suffer all the inconveniences produced
TO TlfE PEOPliE 6$ PENNSYLVANLV. : by the suspension, the corrupt and rotten banking
Yeu all know, or ought to know, that, among the system so earnestly repudiated, still exists with all
' the blessings t conferred upon you by the late ad- its train of evils, the ' monstdr,' with its deslruc
- ministration of, the General Government (in the tivefangs fa3(ened on the prosperity of the coun
JooTstdns' of which the present administration is , i
.ffif g) was die arbitrary rejection, by the Pre- try, breathes with more than accustomed vlgor,
sldent, of a bill which had passed both Houses of and yet, notwithstanding that a thorough purga
Goneress by large majorities, for making a distri- tion of all existing evils was to have followed the
bution among the severalstates of the proceeds of : conveningof the Legislature, the banks, made to
the sales of the Public Lands, which are equally !
' Lriv nf all iho Rt atPS comnosinff the Union. , rcsume' charlers fraudulently obtained,' to be re
in this measure the legislature of your state has
heretofore taken an active interest, and, whether '
the principle of the measure or the benefits which
it holds out are considered, it is one in which your
ji uuiu uui uc j
interest is now greater than ever, as well irom the
attemnt which is now making in Congress to give
away those lands, as now from the situation in
which your state hnds ltselt m regaru to lis mier- ,
nal improvement debt. I
Your attention is now earnestly invited to thrj
following facts, showing what would have been, the
effect ofjtfr. Clay's Land Bill, if the President had ,
nnt. instead of retuniinfi it with his objections,
toCongres,bv whom it would have been passed not
withstanding his objections,) put it into his pock
et, and thus prevented it from becoming a law.
By a Report from the Treasury Department, in
pursuance of a call from Congress at the last ses
sinn. it annears that, if Mr. Clav's bill had become
a law, it would have placed at;tbe diBp6sal of.the i
t:,"lr p,.,,7, Wh-mthe six ,vears endintr I
1st Octoberj 1838, the :gross sum Dftfive millions ster' is no longer terrible in their eyes, but comes
seven hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred hUe a ministering angel to their assistance, and
and ninety-seven dollars, or, on an aveiage, the iuns jnto lisllessnessahd inactivity, even the grand
sum of nine hundred and fifty-nine thousand one , - . .
hundred and sixteen dollars pi year; a snm winch bgh pnest among the destructives, Thomas Mc
would have paid the interest (at five per cent.) of jElweo! These things are true. The United
more than nineteen millions of your public debt. States Bonk, abused and reviled as it lias been, is
To bring the matter more directly home to you, at Ia3t the dernier resort for the State in its hour
individually, we have prepared the following state-. ,
:-onont, showing that, if the gross sum for the six , OI"eea . .
-years had been paid into your state Treasury, it ! Pennsylvania never was so situated as at pre
would have profited ca'cn ctnihty in the state' (ta-, serit. Agrarianism has well nigh chanted her fu7
'long the census for 1830, for a guide) to the a- neral di and whh the ;n0wienve Qf her distress
mount annexed to the name of each county in the , , , t . , , , , ... ,
Snowing" able; and each county in the state has j ficsh upon tdsher legislatois take no
Jostithat amount by the failure of the bill to become steps to alle viate it. '3S ow it is plain that something
a law: " must be done' to sustain her credit, and done quick-
TABLE 'showing the amount wluch each county yt and it is reasonable to suppose that those W'hO'e
of the statf Pennsylvania would have receiv- dut u Js tQ atlend tQ th- m5ueV s,ould- be- fae-
f?.1 aW it, but the peoplewill lno, a little
XJkLk 7 1 I
years
" Allegheny
Somerset
McKean
- Potter
JefTorson
Cambria
Clearfield
Crawford
Mercer
Union ..
Yah an fro...
$218,150
- GG,150
6,180
51200
Armstrong
Luzerne
$75,G00:
--117,360
Indianat
G 1,0,0,0
jHuntihgdpn "117,000
8;ooo
Lycoming
75,600
30.100 Adams
21,000 Berks
68,S00 Bucks
cj-4G,0j)Q Chester .
89,,a00t Cumberlajid
29,700 Dauphin '
".1Y5.800 Delawafe
91,590
230,150
197,510
211,870
123,500
109,790
74,390
152,930
330,950
90,460
88,150
170,420
1G8,560
347,700
'7l,3'C0
'4'68,'550
204'0
westmorelanu
Warren
ColiTmbia
Beaver 4i
Centre
- Susquehanna
jf Fayette
' 2042 1J Franklin
W8G,'006:. Lancaster
-'205,000 Lehigh
'' eo.MOO Lebaaon, I
71,600 J&pntgomery
, i . 125,500 Northampton
' 77,780 Phiiadelpiria
'b2,780 Perry
:je Greene
;" . Butler.
Northumberland
Erie
Mifflin
Tioga
, Washington
Bradford
77,-150 ' Pliilad'a-co'y;
72,000 'Pfce"
92,000 thuyMU .
38,700' -Wayne- k , .
186,000 Yor.k,,,, .. -
84,280 Bedford -,
v59";25
3??,70'0'
183.V30
. J05,0p0
JJ3Mr. Wise stated a few dayssirice in
his place in the House of Representatives, that
the War Department had admitted the fact offi
cially to him, that this government had authori
sed the employment of Blood-hounds! This is
precisely what wight have been anticipated
from our pure government. It will be remem
bered that a vary short -time since the Globe
'Positively denied that the Government had
sa ctioned the atrocious measure. So much
-10, -tho'veracity of the organ of the administration.
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
?IilforV5ii February, 180.
Terms, 2,00 in advance; $2.25, nalfiyenrly : and $2,50 if not
"a ' paid bdfbie the eiuljjpf the year.
POR PRESENT :
.Gen. WilIiamjHiry Uarrison,.
oeRhio.
: for vicetresident :
.. - j Joint Tyler,
OF VIRGINIA.
' PENNSYLVANIA HER CONDITION.
It is a. matter of serious regret, that while our
State Legislature is convulsed with partisan con
flicts of "a nature irrelvant to the best interests of
the peopYe Avliile its members are contending a-
boutrtrifles, and battling wjtTi windmills, that the
s. V' ... zV- 1i . ' -ii i r i.
iaeaj?i iinuipg, upon, some pian ior aiievjuinig uib
deplorable condition of tlie State, does not suggest
itself to theni. :jWe-seiid them :thpre, not as par
tizans not as the merei-mouth-pieces .of.unpruiT
cipled cabals or fadtions-bntias.tho honored jc
nret-entalives of a free neople,--vhose iunnuestion-
J-able duly St is to legislate for the genml good-
- - . - . . - ,
to-endeavor by the exercise of thhr wisdom, tal-
i'ents, and energy, to promote our and the' State's
has been in - session within a few days of two
moIjths, and what is the result-of its deliberations ?
pealed, the 'monster' crushed, violators of the laws
punished, the corrupt banking sj'Stem torn up by
jhe roots is a3 calm aB a summer's morning, and
. . . .
our representatives, patriotic souls, continue to
r r
pocket their three dollars a day, get drunk, or play
back - gamnltm, as though nothing was demanded of
them but their presCnce at the capitol ! We, were
t prepared to witness such a result afterhoaring
r r
the loud and general burst of indignation from the
leaders of the self-styled democrats of the State,
who control her Legislature." e were not pre
pared to see those who ever professed anti-bank
principles, whose opposition to all- soulless corpo
rations, as they termed the banks, knew no limit
but in their total exterpation, veer round with a
suddenness surpassing strange, and hug them as
. ' .
the offspring.of their
own begetting. The.'mon-
surprised to .learn that not-a single, step has been
taken '.by their servants .to, the accomplishment of
this ehd'i : We.-profess to, befa -friend to Pennsyl-
emn conviction that our legislators think too much
for their parly" and the loaves and fishes, and too
little for the good of the people. The State is
virtually abandoned, and her interests neglected,
while petty schemes of personal and political ag
grandizement are made the order bf the day. Is
such the design. for. which' "Legislative Assemblies
are constituted . such the business for which
the people delegate power to individuals to trans
act V We think not. But so long as the tyrant
partv usurps the empire "of the" mind and rules
it with absolute despotism, there will never be an
end to that evjl legislation which -'we-all so deeply
deplore. " iaid' what is the'.reme'dy This. Let
.gopdv'Jipnesf,' and capable ,'rden be elected by the
peoplo.of ;each'p.,ounty4 without respect to party,
to,representrthem in general assembly men who
.would, beabove tho ' small beer' business which
characterises a majority of the. gartfafi represen
tatives of the present day, u -ri: r c
Now, what is the, condition of Pennsylvania 1
How is she situated as:it regards influence, credit,
and resources ? In the first place we find her la
boring under a debt of something like thirty
four million of dollars ! which requires annually,
in addition to the revenue, one million dollars to
pay the interest ! This is a startling fact. And
iiuorder to pay the interest on the loan which fell
due on the first instant, a bill has been introduced
into the House of Representatives, authorising the
Governor to netrotiate a loanof tS'lO.SGl for the
term of five yeais at 5 per cent. This is only ad
ding to the general debt, and every dollar borrow
ed, so long as the revenue of the State falls short
in the sum of one million, annually, in defraying
the expenses of'the Government and paying the
interest on certain loans for which the State
pledged, augments the already fearful amount, and
renders her condition still worse. Now, if the re
venue of the State falls short annually in the sum
of one million, what measure must she take to
sustain her credit ? TASATioN,say you. Well
this is the only alternative, whether it be direct or
indirect. Every farm in this County stands
pledged ifo'r the debts of the State, and although
we abhor the principle of direct taxation, and hold
it to be buta rclicof that foreign tyranny overturned
by our forefathers in the revolution, yet wo would
not hesitate to pay over to the tax gatherer our
share of the exaction, if the, State would be ben
cfitcd thereby. - 13ut taxation is a dangerous pre
cedent,, and the people must take care that in sane
tioning it they are not forging chains for themselves
and slavcrv Jbr their children. This manner of
sustaining the credit of the State, however, is se
riously agitated in many places, and, as our read
er3.,will remember w;as hinted at by Governor
Poxter-in his late, jannual message to the Legisla
tureand it would be as well for the people to make
up their mind lo the result. The Legislature is
.too much absorbed in contemplating the magni
tude of mole-hills, to think of removing moun
tains, and while her members are wasting their
time in foolish party strifes by which no good
end is obtained, they will be obliged to return to
their constituents without having acomplislied any
thing for the general good, or attained the legiti
mate objects for which they were convened.
In other States, the questiorkof a division of
a portion of the public lands among the several
States for the purposo of paying off their debts, is
demanding deserved attention. Has Pennsylva
nia nothing to say on the point She has influence,
and if the proposed division would be a desiderat
um to any member of the Confederacy, surely it
would be tocher with her debt of thirty-four mil
lion dollais Mr. Van Buren, is desirous that
the ppbjic.domain should be ceded to the West
to the new. States ! he. would build them up at
the expense of the old, and fortius purpose that j
bold bad man' John C. Calhoun, has introduced
a bill in Congress. The President wants the voles
of the West, hence his anxielu to assist her. But
Pennsylvania, if true to herself, can avert this
threatened robbery by taking the proper steps, and
what is better, secure sufficient to pay off her debt,
and relieve herself from that, at best, disgrace
ful alternative of levying a hirect tax !
LADIES' COMPANION.
We have received four numbers of this delight
ful "Companion" for the "Ladies," and must
ance. This Magazine, for such it is, dear reader,
is one of the best in the counti-y. It is made up of
excellent reading, exclusively original , and from
the pens of some of our first and most favored wri
ters, each number being elegantly embellished.
Its tone, is a healthy moral one. Believing that
not one of our fair friends would find fault with
our taste, we confidently recommend to their
'highest consideration,' the "Ladies Companion."
See prospectus on -1th page.
BTP Messrs. Coolbaugh and Brodhead of the Le
gislature, will please accept our thanks for public
documonta.
IE? The Editor will be absent from his post for
a few weeks at the East; in the mean while, how
ever, the paper will bo published as usual every
week without fail. Those persons who may be
desirous to pay for their papers will please to call
on William Eastburn, who is fully authorised'to
give receipts.
. fXf -Banks in the South are not suffered toswin
.dloho .people with that impunity which has marked-some
in 'the North. They have a summary
way of dealing with them there if we may take
the following evidence as'proof. A good deal of
excitement having arisen in consequence of the
swindling operations of ,the. .Brandon Bank, the
people of Jasper and the adjoining counties in East
Mississippi, met and resolved respecting the Branch
at Paulding :
That "the meeting . would take possesion of
vaults, books, papors,,and all other things belong
ing to the Branch Bank, and place them injthe
hands of a committee of five for ' safe keeping,'
and it appointed a committee to receive whatever
proposition the Bank might feel disposed to make."
Gov. Porter. The ultra federal Yan Buren
men have read David R. Porter out of their ranks,
because he has dared to act for tbo good of tho
country. The following is one of the many spe
cimens of abuse which daily meet our eye :
" The New Era breaks ground against Govern
or Porter and his Message, and asserts that the le
gislature will not heed his doctrines. 1 They will
scorn, (predicts the Erd,) both the doctrines and
the practice of jicir renegade Governor and his
fronllcss allicsQVr they may for the future be
djiimb as lo their public failh or their political prin
ciples. Their submission to a dead tyrant and
ihoir fealty lo a new Arnold, will mark their histo--ry,
for 'an example yet unknown, of a powerful
state, with vast resources, good laws, a constitu
tion of her own, a people free and happy, without
foreign or domestic enemy, freely, uncompelled,
and for the mere promises of her creatures, sacri
ficing her independence, surrendering her consti
tution,trampling on her laws, and choosing forking
a thing without a soul a paperjtidolJ,'!
TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS
Harvey Roys and Francis Al. Smith were elect
ed Justices of the Peace, and James A. Combs,
Constable, on the 21st inst. for this township, and
between David Wells and Nicholas Wheeler
there was a-tie.
soijnd views:
' The following views we extract from amarticlq
in the Harrisburg Keystone, the leading sjlte ad-'
ministration paper, of the 20th inst., under the
head of " The Crisis," and recommend them to
the consideration of our readers. Every reasoning
man. will admit them to be sound, and acknow
ledge the absurdity of the agrarian doctrine of
"Down with the Banks." " The Crisis" has in
deed arrived, and even the ultra Anti-Bank men
are forced to concede that the best interests of the
state, and the welfarg of the people, depend mate
rially on the existence of banks, and the pcrpctua-
tion of the credit system. To crush the banks,
would bring noting but ruin therefore it is desir
ous that our Legislature act judiciously and wise
ly in fixing a time for a resumption, giving the
Banks such opportunity to effect this much desir
ed object, as will place them beyond the necessity
of injuring those who are indebted to them by an
arbitrary, though perhaps just exaction of their
dues
u If there had not been a bank in the U. Stales
for the last twenty years, and should never be one :
yet if we import more than we export, we will be
as we are, in debt, and while our laws compel us
to pav our debts we will, as as we do, feol the pres-j
sure incident to that situation
" Did the banks occasion us lo bein debt to for
eigners : or was it occasioned oy tne extrvagance,-
the speculating spirit of our own people ; the go-
ahead system which was meverv body s mouth, and
under which so many go at lull speed even in sight.
of a fearful precipice before them.
" W e are in debt to creditors out of tlie state ;
and to creditors within the state ; that is, in debt
to one another. It is for creditors out of the state
that general currency, gold and silver, is wanted ;
by those who even now wish to import more goods
in hopes to make money lor so doing ; does the
suspension of the banks injure those indebted to:
foreigners ? I doubt it ; if they have produce they
can export it and pay their debts ; if they have
bank notes they can buy any kind ot produce and
export it to pav their debts ; if thoy have no pro
duce, and no bank notes with which to buy, how
do the banks injure them ! Why they say the
anks ought to lend them money, but I never
inew or believed the banks were bound to con
tinue lending when they had already lent as much
as they could on their capital. But we are indebt
ed to one another ; and the banks continue their
oans to such as will take bank paper : does this
injure any body ; does it not do good to thousands
and save thousands from ruin ? It enables us to
pay one another ; we are like all other enterpris-
incr and Growing people ; all dealing and manufac
turing men are more or less in debt ; all men who
have bought property are more or less in debt ; all
the heirs ot deceased persons wno nave laKen lanas
at appraisement are in debt. The debts, from one
citizen lo another exceed by ten fold the debts of
citizens of this state to foreigners. This in my
opinion ought to be kept steadily in view by the
legislature V a- present our people are using indus
try and economy and are paying off their debts
more rapidly tban in more prosperous times ; no
one is going in debt ; like the intemperate man
who has been frightened by disease we have be
come temperate. In a very short time this burden
of Jiomo debt will be extinguished or greatly les
Sericd ; and this Is-greatly promoted by the banks
renewing the notes of those lo whom they have
lent money, and occasionally, and very sparingly,
as they get in money, making a new loan.
" While wc are in this situation there are men
who propose to destroy all the banks ; not gradu
ally but instantly ; 1 say destroy all the hanks, for
that is the inevitable result of tho measures now
urged by some men. A man is sick and exposed,
if you please, by his own folly and imprudence ;
and you compel him to leave his bed and chop a
cord of wood in two hours or walk ten miles in
iWo hours ; or you Avill lake all his property from
his family ; he attempts to do it and falls down
and dies." Wb have had suspensions before ; I
distinctly remember two before this ; some banks
by imprudence and sheer folly were ruined and
never resumed, but the number was only one sixth
or at most4one fifth ; they never expected to resume
and they sued and sold as unwisely as they had
lent money, when fifty farms or houses were to bo
sold on the day, no buyers were found or none
who would give a tenth of the value, and the bank
after selling out the drawer and endorser often lost
half its debt. The stay law passed (the wisest and
best law enacted this century) and sacrificing pro
perty ceased, and when it expired but few debts
were to be paid, and those so reduced in amount
that sheriff sales were not more frequent than in
ordinary times ; and the debt notes already lost
by harsh and imprudent sales were all paid.
"If you crush all the banks, there is an end to
all hope of resumption; they must all recover
what is due to them, and we will see a scramble
for the first judgment and execution and a sense of
ruin and distress, beyond wnat tne most viviu 1m
agination can anticipate
Tho merchant sues the
storekeeper ; the storekeeper sues all his debtors,
a few may pay and escape, but the poor may es
cape through the gate of insolvency ; take notice
all debts will have to be collected in specie : you
double the difficulty to the debtor and double the
value received to the creditor ; you make the rich
richer and tho poor will have nothing left.
"If I am not much mistaken, there is great in
accuracy and confounding bf terms and even of
ideas, even in the minds of some members of the
legislature in speaking of banks ; of compelling
hanks to pay specie, of forfeiting the charter of
banks ; who are lo be affected by such laws? some
will answer; the bank. I then 35k what is meant
by tho word bank in such speeches or laws. It is
not the building in which the business is conduct
ed ; the president and diiectors are not the banks.
The. man who supposes they will suffer most from
such laws is too ignorant to reason sensibly.
"The Bank is the stock holders, the borrowers,
the men who hold its paper, the men whose bu
siness depends 011 its accommodation, whethcrhe
be the employer or the person employed and
when you take in all the Banks, you take tho
whole mercantile and manufacturing communi
ty, a largo portion of tho agricultural and all
hired by day or month or year. It emphatically
includes the people recollect banks have not
the philosopher's stone they can't pay in specie
unless they are paid in specie. It is meant to
declare by law that all debts shall be paid at
once and in specie you will say no but is
not that the direct and inevitable law now in
progross. I know it is easier to object to
plans, than to propose better. I dont say
I can propose a perfect ono or that any man
can do sol bui I can and will if a liitlo ti ne I
given suggest some measures wiL-h in ty cjf.
rect some, of the evils under which wuarc. It.
iiigwhat at present I wish is to excite a reHaj
tion examination and to prevent making bx,
worse.
As a partvmcasuro it is absurd it will f.ill
uuavy mi i im J'iiri) jii jiuwurns ineir "PP'UIC
If it relieves thcfey indebted tn'forqigi'n'rs'
who wish to import it will directly iriqreasi
the exportation of specie and increase llieTrffi
culty to domestic debtors,it wilLniin them ahdii
dependent on them. -I ake a little .ime semi
committee- of cool prudehtmeu to inquire,
wait till you hear from such men at homeit U
easy to do wrong at any time try,.to tin
right.
TREASURY PAP.
In the course of his remarks in Congress on
the subject of Government extravagance Mr.
Graves alluded tc the fact of a clerk in the Post
Office Department with a salary of $1,500 a
year appointing a substitute at $40 a month. J
He said the clerk had gone to Kentucky to editj
an administration paper, and was now receiv- -j
mg nis $i,ouu salary, while, with the Know
ledge of the department, because the work
-was done by the substitute at S-10 :c
'month. This, shows a necessity of an iiTvesti
.gation into the secrets of the " prison house."
Mr. G. also alluded to the immense sums
paid by Mr. Dickihs, the Secretary "f the sen
ate for the single item for coloring maps, for
that body during the past year. I have taken
the trouble to examine the document, and have
extracted the following items :
Jan-. 29, 1836. To E. A. Dickens for
coloring map,
220 32
do do 387 40
do do 888 90
do do " 730 00
do Co 599 40
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March 6th.
April 8th.
May 7th.
June 4th.
This is the amount paid to the family ol Mr.
Dickens, the Secretary, alone, of which $1496
was paid Miss E. A. Dickens between Janua
ry 1st and the 8th of April. It was to this Mr.
Graves alluded to a a specimen of the expen
diture. He thought if one lady could earn SI .
496 in three months, it was time to inquire if thn
work could not be done for less. ' Certainly it
might. Tlie coloring of maps is a simple ope
ration, and is done in N. Y. for a few dollars
per week. N. Y. Amcr.
Friends of the Dear People. The Van
Burenites are laboring to abolish paper and
bring about a hard money currency thus redu
cing the price on every thing, and the wages of
labor, to the specie standrad. This staudrd
will be probably about one-half lower than pres
ent prices. That is where a working man.
obtains one dollar for his day's work, at present,,
he will, in pure hard money times, get about
fifty cents. This desirable state of things (ta
the office holders)V"an Burenism)is-endeav-oring
to bring about.---But it is worthy of spe
cial remark, that while they are thus working
to bring down prices and the wages of honest
labor, they are exerting themselves in various
parts of tlie Union, to raise the salaries of office
holders ! We have a recent instance, very much
in point, in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Th e
anti-bank, hard money action in thatl body is
calculated to affect prices & the wagesiof Jabor
very materially. This no one doubts:.r-And
in the midst of this action, we hav ra:?raouon.
by a Locofoco member of the Senate tojncrease
the salary of tho President of the Board of Ca
nal Commissioners to $2,500 per year, or tb
about double what it is at presenthus the
policy of Van Burenism is to reducrices and
wages of labor, and to raise the salaries of the
office holders. And are they not, J&n, dear
friends of the 'dear people V Whoroml'doubt
it?Bah. Patriot. V?-
Hear an Opponent. In a recent number of
the Berwick Sentinel, a Van Buren paper, the
editor announces his determination to sustain .
Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency says ho
"wiU yield Gen. Harrison a fair and impartial
hearing"' and adds: To traduce and slander,
the character as is too often attemped, of a great
and good man, such as Gen. Wm. II. Harrison,
who it is not denied, has rendered eminent ser
vices in the " field of battle," and the Councils
of the nation, is not only uncorteous and
disgraceful, but it is an open insult to the good
6ense of that portion ef the American People,
who have named him as their candidate. If we
cannot defeat his election without resort to such
means, we hope we never shall with their aid.
Therefore whilst we control the supervision and
editorial conduct of this Journal, no such means,
of political warfare shall ever find place in its
columus."
The Difference. The Louisville Jour
nal says, "jThe loco foco S:ate Convention of
Indiana, got up by the most extraordinary efforts,
consisted of 488 members. The Whig Conven
tion, got by up no other influence than the spon
taneous impulses of tho people, consisted of
1800.
Who can wonder, that tho administrations
give up Indiana as lost to their party forever ?"
The Pittsburg Mercury complaii.s that Mr.
Barclay a prominent, Van Buren man, has left
the ranks of tho party to which Mr. Barclay
responds that the Van Bcren men need not think
hard of it; and says " there arc acres of sensible
men doing so" as well as himself.
An Immense Harrison Meeting was held at
Pittsburg on the etening of tho 11th inst. Hon.
Harmar Denny was president, and among those
who participated in the meeting, Ave notice the
names of W. W. Irwin, the Mayor of Pittsburg,
and General William Marks, formerly a demo
cratic U. S. Senator flrbm Pennsylvania. An
interesting letter wjis- read from judgo-II. M.
Breckinridge.
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